Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile had been arrested twice—in 1990 and 2001—on rebellion charges before his latest detention on charges of graft and plunder in 2014.
In last year’s cases, the EDSA 1986 hero and former Senate President has been accused of amassing about P173 million by diverting that amount from his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) from 2004 to 2010 into bogus non-government organizations and foundations associated with Janet Lim-Napoles, who herself remains in detention for allegedly masterminding such scams involving other lawmakers.
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